mooth dance-pop duo Chromeo announced this week it’ll perform at the Midland on October 20, along with Mayer Hawthorne & the Country and Breakbot. Very exciting. Categories: Music Tags: Chromeo, okkervil river, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Twin Sister
The authorities tend to frown on getting teenage girls drunk, even if it’s your daughter’s birthday party. Karen Christine Downs discovered this unfortunate fact in February 2009. Now, she’ll be spending 30 days in jail and the next two years on probation, according to the Star. In May, the 45-year-old Downs pleaded guilty to child endangerment for providing booze to…
If you’ve found yourself downtown at all this week, you might have noticed some light poles decorated in swirling red and blue colors, or perhaps walked past a group of oddly dressed middle-aged men singing in perfect harmony with each other. These things are happening because the Barbershop Harmony Society is holding its annual convention/competition at the Sprint Center this…
The cinnamon rolls are back in the deep fryer and all seems right on 39th Street. Mama’s 39th Street Diner (3906 Waddell) reopened yesterday, nearly nine months after a fire gutted the interior of the popular breakfast spot. “It’s been great. We’re doing really well. The energy for us is seeing those customers come back in that door,” front of…
It’s official: Food trucks have arrived. The first annual Westport Food Truck Festival is tonight and Saturday at the Back Yard at the Beaumont Club. There will be 17 food trucks joining the collection of graphic artists and designers selling locally made goods at The Westport Marketplace. Don’t miss the burger at the Good You, the sausages from Guerilla Gourmet…
Prop comedian Gallagher performs at Knuckleheads tonight. Last time he was in town, there was a little bit of a kerfuffle. We caught up with him earlier this week and asked him about what his favorite foods to smash are, and why he’s a comedy outsider. Categories: Music Tags: Gallagher
UPDATE (9:24 a.m.): KMBC reports that the 4-year-old boy found wandering around 43rd and Benton has been reunited with his family. Family members told the TV station that the boy, whose name is T.J., is autistic, and they didn’t realize he was missing until they saw him on the news. The family reportedly lives about a block from where the…
Nutbag Kansas City preacher Lou Engle has something really stupid to say: The EF5 tornado that ripped through Joplin on May 22 “was a sign that God’s redemptive judgments are beginning to be manifest concerning the shedding of innocent blood and abortion.” Engle apparently shared this and his other prophecies last month at the International House of Prayer (watch the…
Anyway, you should vote! Sick of the same band winning every year? Vote for somebody else! Sick of the most shameless self-promoters winning? Vote for somebody else! Vote out of spite! Vote out of love! There are many reasons to vote! So vote here. Categories: Music Tags: pitch music awards
The roof on a church on Linwood Boulevard collapsed Thursday morning, bringing down a brick wall with it. According to reports, no one was hurt. A hole appeared in the east wall of the Cain-Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church, at 1701 Linwood Boulevard, before the roof came down. The portion of the building that failed appears to be an addition…
Here’s this week’s WTF story: Apparently there was a shooting “competition” at 55th and Garfield Monday night that ended with a 24-year-old man shot in the head and critically injured. Except this competition wasn’t at a shooting range. This was with some neighbors, and according to the Star, escalated with the guy firing “successively larger guns” in the air, in…
Jason Bowers grew up in an interesting era — when chefs like the Galloping Gourmet and Frugal Gourmet had just arrived on the scene. The executive chef at the Hotel Phillips remembers watching both on television with his grandfather, who had been a cook in the Army. “To see that flair, the ability to produce something artistic in nature with…
%{}% The trial of suspected Waldo rapist Bernard Jackson is scheduled to begin Monday morning. Jackson’s trial is expected to last two weeks. Jackson is going on trial on five counts of sodomy, six counts of forcible rape or attempted forcible rape with a weapon and three counts of first-degree robbery. Jackson is accused raping four women in the Waldo…
The waistlines of Kansans and Missourians are continuing to expand. A report issued by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Found found that folks in both states are getting fatter. According to the report, the number of Kansans who are obese has more than doubled in the last 15 years. That’s good enough to be the 16th…
Now that Parkville’s popular English Landing Park is, mostly, underwater — the Wednesday and Saturday farmers market held in the covered stalls in the parking lot adjacent to the park has been moved to a new location. The farmers and vendors now set up their wares in a space on the north side of Parkville City Hall at 8880 Clark…
